Posted on 05/03/2007 10:48:30 AM PDT by Gamecock
My parents tried to use hot peppers and chili spices on me when I was a kid, but it didn't go over to well, and realized it was a mistake and dumped it.
peppers don't always do the trick.
Let alone the Editor who approved it.
Seems to me like an all-out effort to avoid taking a swipe at their sexual orientation. We aren't even told which woman was the natural mother of those children, or if neither one was. The cat doesn't come out of the bag until the end of the article, when judge refers to the older woman as a "matrimonial figure".
Instead the author goes on and on about Mormon this and Mormon that, as if the Mormons would actually sanction this arrangement.
I know about that as a member of the church and having grown up in the Church all my life. There is NOTHING in our religion, beliefs, doctrine, practices, traditions or culture that sanctions this kind of behavior. If I were to make a prediction, this woman is going to be in danger of excommunication.
There's wackos in all faiths. If we were to characterize every religion by the wackos that happen to belong to them and hold them up as an example of that religion per se, there would be no religions left in the world worth believing in.
This one kind of surprised me, although it really shouldn't. It's just sad when people feel justified in using religion to justify their cruelty. I hope the kids can get removed from that environment and have a chance to recover from the hell they've had to go through.
to match the smear campaign here on fr against Rudy?......seems plenty of Mitt fans have been active on that front.
I get it. You are an anti-mormon bigot that is using a report on child abuse as an attack on the LDS religion.
Horrid.
EXTRINSIC religiosity and AUTHORITARIANISM and DISCIPLINE WITHOUT RELATIONSHIP
produce rebellion and horror quite routinely.
I know that there are crazies in every religion. I am Catholic and I believe we have 3 for sure...I know I don’t have to list them. lol. I agree that this women is just nuts to do this to her children and did not learn it from a religion.
You mean they were lesbians? I didn’t catch that at all.
You know why? because it said they were mormons. So I assumed they did this at some sort of day-care environment, or maybe to their own children when they watched them together, a children’s play group.
I never thought they were living together.
Nope.
Are you saying that it is impossible for a mormon to do something like this? Should it be ignored or not included in a News discussion because it hurts your feelings?
You make a very good point here, where were the “elders?”
No problem. You know I now wish they said “Some crazy lady fed her kids some disgusting stuff and is a freak!” That would have more than truthful.
They wouldn't happen to be Senators, would they? And just for the record, I apologize on behalf of my Church for the existence of Harry Reid. LOL!
We already have a Mormon as Senate Majority Leader, but the MSM doesn't seem to have a problem with that.
If there was a rash of Mormons doing what these women were doing, you’d have a point.
See my post #54.
I suspect it was somewhat IN-GROUP/OUT-GROUP sensibilities and protecting their own.
But, the whole denomination had a horrid beginning with a convicted fraud guy as it’s founder. And he ordered murders amongst other stuff. So there is likely some spiritual ‘heritage’ which is ‘helping’ folks act out . . . as is true, to some degree, in every religious group. Some worse than others.
Between all the Rudy threads, Mitt threads and Mormon threads, this place is starting to look more like a barroom brawl than an internet forum.
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